Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta updates (cont’d)

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

Even more collateral updates after the release of Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta. Today the updated Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Help file and the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta UM Language Packs saw daylight.

The standalone Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Help file can be used to as a reference to plan, deploy and manage your Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta organization.

The Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Unified Messaging (UM) Language Packs allow an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta UM server to speak additional languages to callers and recognize other languages when callers use Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or when voice messages are transcribed.

You can download the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Help file here; the individual Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta UM Language Packs can be retrieved from this location.

Hosting Deployment Guide for Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

In addition to the Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta release yesterday and all the updated related documents and kits, the Hosting Deployment Guide for Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta became available today.

The guide (CHM help file) describes hosting Exchange Server 2010 SP1 in a multi-tenant organization using single installation.

You can download the guide here.

Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

This weeked the Exchange team released the public beta of Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010.

You can download the Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta here.

For those still unaware, the 500Mb+ file contains the full set of binaries; you can use it to upgrade existing RTM installations but can also deploy new Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta installations.

Note that when you want to install SP1 Beta on an Exchange Server holding the Client Access Server role, on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, you first need to install hotfix 981002 – Windows Communication Foundation in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You can download this hotfix here.

With the release of SP1 Beta Microsoft also released updates of the following documents and kits (list might be incomplete):

Exchange Server Active Directory Schema Changes Reference Jun2010. Note that this document and release notes don’t mention “beta”, so I assume the SP1 schema changes contained herein are more or less final;
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Protocol Documentation (v6.0);
Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.1 (Beta);
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Web Services SDK June 2010;
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Transport Agents SDK June 2010;
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Backup and Restore SDK June 2010.

Note: As always with beta code, it is advised to use it on non-production systems only.

Update: The Exchange Team blogged on the Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta availability and confirmed included updates mentioned earlier, e.g. archiving and discovery enhancements, OWA improvements, upgraded mobility features and Management Console improvements. Still no Release Notes though, but the team also mentioned that Exchange 2007 SP3 is imminent.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Web Services SDK June 2010

MapiExceptionNotFound: Unable to delete mailbox

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

Johan Veldhuis blogged about the problem we encountered when moving mailboxes cross-forest from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 (also see my 2-part article on cross-forest move). We received the following mailbox move failure message:

Warning: Unable to update AD information for the source mailbox at the end of the move. Error details: An error occurred while updating a user object after the move operation. –> Failed to find the address type object in Active Directory for address type “SMTP:AMD64″.

Failed to cleanup the source mailbox after the move.
Error details: MapiExceptionNotFound: Unable to delete mailbox. (hr=0×8004010f, ec=-2147221233)

So, besides an Exchange 2010 mailbox the Exchange 2003 mailbox was still there, and AD attributes weren’t changed on the source AD object (e.g. HomeMDB still pointing to Exchange 2003). This is a potential serious condition as incoming e-mail might be delivered to the Exchange 2003 mailbox instead of the new Exchange 2010 mailbox, depending on your setup and speed to remove the source mailbox.

To assist with this issue Microsoft released hotfix 940012 for Exchange 2003. It will generate an event on Exchange 2003 when it cannot remove the mailbox. It will also log which folder might be the culprit. After detecting and identifying the mailbox with issues, you still need to remove it manually (steps should be known; if not, they’re contained in the kb article).

You can view kb article 940012 here and download the related hotfix for Exchange Server 2003 SP2(!) through here.

Exchange 2010 Protocol Documentation 5.0

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Michel de Rooij

The Exchange 2010 protocol documentation set has been updated to version 5.0. No mentioning of what’s new or updated in this set, but always good to have the latest documents available. You can retrieve the individual documents or the complete set here.